Tuesday, May 20, 2014

If your interested in the new wire wrapping techniques - PERFECTLY TWISTED has a great tutorial

This link is to Part 1 of a step by step tutorial for the above wire wrapped pendant - its amazing of Susan to share such great information - then just scroll up and you will get to part 2- She also has other free tutorials on her site - and other tutorials on her Perfectly Twisted Etsy shop where you can see and purchase her beautiful pieces - I adore her wire wraps and her Tree's of life

I am definitely going to try this on the weekend - Thank you Perfectly Twisted

Monday, May 19, 2014

The weather is warmer - the studio has warmed up and its great to be back playing
Putzing around - sorting things out, moving things around and sitting for a while at the torch while I clean up the farm
On Sunday did a couple of turtles and some hearts - I think I'm getting the hearts and the turtles finally
These are all boro glass and done on a Nortel Minor with two oxy concentrators - so those out there that think you cant do boro - this shows you that you can make rather large pendants using hard glass

Wednesday, May 14, 2014

I want to thank everyone for the their wonderful comments on the Bead Soup

Dont forget about the give-a-way - see side bar for short cut link

what the soup has done for me :

1. Motivate to get moving on new items and thinking about new designs
2. pushed my following up to 152 - my goal was to have about 150 by end of June so I am ahead now to set my year end goal to be at least 160
3. going from blog to blog has really opened my eyes to how people are working lately in regards to designs and types of materials - absolutely nothing is left out of this soup - every type of material is used to create and I mean CREATE ! the most amazing pieces - You think from the last soup that there just cant be any new designs out there or combos of materials - but the soup proves that thinking wrong.

I haven't even made it a 1/4 through as I am spending quality time on each blog - not just checking out the soup but the other items in their blog as I find them fascinating and motivating

I actually torched last night - a few hearts as I only had a boro kiln up at the studio - have to bring up my regular kiln

I've cleaned the sink, hooked up the water, cleaned the fridge, filled with pop and water, new big bottle water done, cleaned arond and brought a lot of stuff back up to the studio. Have some ideas for some new etched pieces and overall its a nice spring and the weather is changing for the better. so need to get working.

Friday, May 9, 2014

I am posting before the midnight reveal time - I have to assemble all my stuff for my demos tomorrow , wash clothes, do litter, garbage and have a bath - so I dont want to forget - So here it is !!! The Reveal !!!

I want to thank Jo-Ann Woolverton for the wonderful soup that she sent to me -www.itsabeadifulcreation.blogspot.ca
I loved the colors as soon as I opened the bag and within a couple of days had the components all made and it was just assembly I had to do- which of course I procrastinated until 2 weeks ago

so from this beautiful Soup

to this

to see how I made the copper piece go to the end of the thread

Assembly was a bit tough - but thankfully I was able to work in the studio so I could use the torch to torch wire ends which was the plan all along

so

I spread everything out

wired up some dangles

then I took them apart and did torched wire ends rather than wound ends

then sealed my copper etched piece and let dry

set out to see next step

with the dangle attached I worked on the necklace attachment

attached

assembled the beautiful blue glass

and finally the center piece

then I did the last add on for the toggle for size

All in all a very fun Bead Soup

I really need to take better pictures

A lot of people are asking how I made the copper piece to sett my necklace

Thursday, May 1, 2014

Yes I braved the rain and cold and visited the studio and picked out something for this months give-a-way

Here it is - an etched and dapped copper zentangle pendant with a dichroic glass center

Its approximately 1-3/4" in diameter - I etched using the staz-on-stamp and using my zentangle rubber stamps for the design I etched it in ferric chloride , cleaned and then cut a center circle and then dapped the circle to give it some depth. I soldered a back to hold the dichroic glass which I set with clear resin . and the copper is sealed with a clear resin.

Rules

Same rules as before - just make a comment here on this thread and I will pull a name at random on the 1st of June

No cost to you and I ship anywhere in the world

You dont have to be a follower - but still looking to round up my followers this year to 150

almost there

Hopefully as the weather gets better I"ll have some step by steps posted and of course there is the Bead soup coming up in May

June - I'll probably do another give a way

As always I typically do not repsond to the comments so I can make sure that I dont mix any up or leave anyone out so I thank you in advice for participating

Yes there will be one - and I will post by tomorrow - so it could be tonight but at least by tomorrow night

so come on back and join in the blog

Unfortunately the 8th Bead Soup Reveal has been pushed out a week to May 10 - mine is all done and glad it is - I had all the layout done within two days, the extra piece I made was done and then I let it sit till last Sunday when I finally put it together - had to pull apart a few times as I was not happy with some of the wire work - but its funky and unusual - sort of reminds me of an Egyptian necklace - but you will have to wait one more week to see it .